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Takashi Itani

Satoko Fujii This Is It!: Message

by Neri Pollastri
February 9, 2026

Terzo album per il trio This Is It! di Satoko Fujii, che vede accanto alla pianista il compagno di vita Natsuki Tamura alla tromba e Takashi Itani a batteria e percussioni, per un lavoro che mescola con equilibrio e ingegno scrittura e improvvisazione radicale. I sei brani in cui è suddiviso l'album si basano ...

Message

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Message; Cryptography; Falafel Feast; Ernest; Never Mind; Orange Flicker.

Satoko Fujii: Message

by John Sharpe
December 28, 2025

Even within the remarkably consistent output of prolific Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii, certain ensembles command special attention. The This Is It! Trio --named for her conviction that the group represented an ideal working unit has become one such forum. Message, the trio's third release, reunites Fujii with her crew -husband and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura ...

Never Mind

July 19, 2025

Album: Message
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 10:06

Mosaic

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Habana's Dream; Dieser Zug; Kumazemi; Sleepless Night; 76 RH.

This Is It!: Mosaic

by John Sharpe
January 12, 2022

Fittingly for an artist as relentlessly exploratory as pianist Satoko Fujii, on Mosaic she pushes at the boundaries of recording technology, as well as the music, and comes up trumps. For the second release from the trio This Is It! lack of physical proximity proved no obstacle. Confined to base during the pandemic, Fujii and husband ...

Satoko Fujii: Mosaic

by Dan McClenaghan
December 8, 2021

Another Covid-19 pandemic year, 2021, seems to have brought about a revival of Japanese pianist Satoko Fuji's duo work, with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura on Keishin, and with vibraphonist Taiko Saito--a pairing dubbed “Futari"--on Underground and Beyond. All three discs are on Libra Records. As the year winds down, she teams once again with Tamura, ...

Habana's Dream

November 13, 2021

Album: Mosaic
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 9:21

A Different Drummer, Part 3: Pino Basile & Mizuki Wildenhahn

by Karl Ackermann
May 24, 2021

The Swish Knocker, And More Early on in his career, the late Milford Graves abandoned the snare drum, substituting the resonance of the toms for the snare parts. He believed music of the drum reverberated from within the drummer and the listener without the need for extraneous instrumentation. Tyshawn Sorey's approach to music speaks to contempt ...